Jiří Dienstbier (20 April 1937 – 8 January 2011) was a Czech politician and journalist.

Born in Kladno, he was one of Czechoslovakia's most respected foreign correspondents before being fired after the Prague Spring.

[1] After the end of communist rule in 1989, he became the country's first non-Communist foreign minister in four decades, a post he held until 1992.

Shortly after his appointment in December 1989, Dienstbier and Minister of National Defence Miroslav Vacek called for the withdrawal of 75,000 Soviet troops who had been stationed in the country since the 1968 Warsaw Pact invasion of Czechoslovakia.

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